In summer my British cat goes out for a few hours during the day (never at night) and sometimes comes back inside just to use the litterbox (Which really wasn't necessary. He's allowed to poop in the garden, but okay then).
We let our cats decide (and only find feathers once a year or so). They come to us then guide us to the door of their choice and reach for the handle to show us what they want us to do. They'll rule the world before AI.
That thing by Fuentes in Scientific American about sex not being binary? It's wrong, flat-out wrong. For detailed explanations of its many errors, misleading claims, and straw-man arguments, see https://tinyl.io/8kmp and the links therein.
Pretty sure that Coyne is not a source I trust on this topic, he's not only scientifically incorrect he's also speaking out a lot in a way that makes it clear he does not respect the rights of transgender people.
I don't have a lot of interest in having you sealioning up in my newsletter Robert, this is your last reply.
I don't have to go further than the third paragraph. Not all animals have binary sexes, some birds have four sexes: https://www.nature.com/articles/539482a, some lizards have only one sex. For plants, it's far more complex, some algae and papayas have three sexes.
Second, Coyne wants to argue that gametes are everything. If humans in fact lived in a vacuum in which nothing else mattered but our gametes, that might be true. But it isn't. Reproductive organs exert differential influences on the body and brain, influences that do not fall into a binary. And the issue is not that sex doesn't exist, but how it is used. It is used to make policy and take away the rights of people who do not conform to proscribed ideas.
And judging from Coyne's prodigious use of "woke", he doesn't care about those people, at least, not near as much as he cares about his scientific dictionary definition.
In summer my British cat goes out for a few hours during the day (never at night) and sometimes comes back inside just to use the litterbox (Which really wasn't necessary. He's allowed to poop in the garden, but okay then).
Cat litter, the bidet of cat pooping.
We let our cats decide (and only find feathers once a year or so). They come to us then guide us to the door of their choice and reach for the handle to show us what they want us to do. They'll rule the world before AI.
That thing by Fuentes in Scientific American about sex not being binary? It's wrong, flat-out wrong. For detailed explanations of its many errors, misleading claims, and straw-man arguments, see https://tinyl.io/8kmp and the links therein.
Pretty sure that Coyne is not a source I trust on this topic, he's not only scientifically incorrect he's also speaking out a lot in a way that makes it clear he does not respect the rights of transgender people.
What exactly did you find "scientifically incorrect" about Coyne's post?
I don't have a lot of interest in having you sealioning up in my newsletter Robert, this is your last reply.
I don't have to go further than the third paragraph. Not all animals have binary sexes, some birds have four sexes: https://www.nature.com/articles/539482a, some lizards have only one sex. For plants, it's far more complex, some algae and papayas have three sexes.
Second, Coyne wants to argue that gametes are everything. If humans in fact lived in a vacuum in which nothing else mattered but our gametes, that might be true. But it isn't. Reproductive organs exert differential influences on the body and brain, influences that do not fall into a binary. And the issue is not that sex doesn't exist, but how it is used. It is used to make policy and take away the rights of people who do not conform to proscribed ideas.
And judging from Coyne's prodigious use of "woke", he doesn't care about those people, at least, not near as much as he cares about his scientific dictionary definition.